BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

✨ Very worthwhile synthesis from.. @mkblyth.bsky.social #security #geopolitics #complexity #macroeconomics #climate #futurescapes

I’m very excited to attend public portions of this. In addition to Spain hosting the Global Progressive Mobilisation in Barcelona with many progressive heads of state participating, it’s also having bilaterals this week w/2 of 8 largest economies: China & Brazil. globalprogressivemobilisation.org/en

BIG, EXCITING NEWS! Dr. Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social -- world-leading climate scientist and author -- is coming to Project Drawdown after leaving NASA. She will be a Senior Scientist, leading an exciting new initiative on "Emergency Brake" climate solutions. drawdown.org/news/world-r...

Some good news 🎉 Democracy for Sale now passed 50,000 subscribers To celebrate we’ve launched a fundraising drive Can you help us do even more hard hitting independent investigative journalism? 😊 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/weve-reach...

Worth adding here that the FBI waited *years* to declare open war on the Black Panther Party, assassinating & incarcerating its leaders en masse. The thing that tipped the balance wasn't the guns, but the free breakfasts, groceries, & clinics that represented a genuine threat to state power.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

Haunted walks through springtime landscapes, techno-optimist manifestos, killer robots, and Pixar provocations of animal uprisings, in this week's Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/the-birds-...

I'm out of words here

If you go straight back in my feed you'll find an entire string of posts about the deaths of those schoolchildren and military casualties as well. Post after fucking post. Cherry-picking a single entry so you can play artisan grudge-farmer on the internet is a cheap mug's game. So fuck off. Thanks.

Essential reading, always! Nonpariel.

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

‘Elect us, we’re the sort of people who struggle to get through the day without accidentally calling for our opponents to be murdered’ is the *best* case for Reform apparently.

The entire tone of this segment really is basically Fox News level analysis of Trump from BBC Radio 4

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Stoked to share this news from yesterday’s Publishers Marketplace, and excited to spend the coming summer tracking robots and monsters across our increasingly dystopian landscape. With luck I will also find some hidden portals into greener futures: www.publishersmarketplace.com/deals/ss.cgi...

NEW: Gareth Fearn lays out the stakes of "electro-capitalism". "The economic basis of this transition is not simply between technologies of energy production. Rather, it is between two different fractions of capital." www.break-down.org/electro-capi...

Winter's end in the weird woods aided by a canine homunculus, urban heron rookeries behind the old warehouses, dystopian auspices in the airport flyover, and news about a new book, in this week's Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/skull-season

Cabinet Office secretary Darren Jones now spent half an hour plus trying to defend government over Labour Together's hiring of a corporate intelligence firm to dig dirt on journalists who reported on the think tank's undeclared funding Democracy for Sale's journalism having real impact 😀

Thx to Nicholas Brown from ANU for this thoughtful engagement with my book and what it can tell us about Australian politics for @insidestory.bsky.social insidestory.org.au/frontlash/

This is massive. A credit to Democracy For Sale for their investigation.

“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.” It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years! “Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question. www.ft.com/content/7bf5...

Queen

Ladies and gentlemen, professional American law enforcement. We are the shithole nation. We are the country that needs regime change. We are the beshitted totalitarian state.

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

The US has never gone to war with a country where its President owns a golf course.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on #r4today The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how? Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏

My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book! “"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses." #greyhound #npr #bookreviews

Fiduciary responsibility, innit.

‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A new piece for @thenation.com on everyone's favourite industry -- private equity; in conversation with one of the many new books on PE, by Megan Greenwell. Here:

Still reading Greyhound by Joanna Pocock. I’m on page 239. Reading slowly…I don’t want to get to the end of the book. I love Greyhound. In 1981, at the age of 17, I rode on a Greyhound bus from Detroit to Los Angeles. It was an experience of a lifetime.

Oh!

You heard it here, folks: 'Do not pass GO'. I am so very grateful for the readers who get in touch with their responses to reading GREYHOUND and their reminiscences of the road.... It's a book about the Greyhound bus, while also being about so many other things...

this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025 "my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists" "your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs" solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work see you all there

Great stuff! But a bird never flew on one wing. Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda -with sound accompaniement by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024. www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...

Yess!! But a bird never flew on one wing. 🙂 Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda with sound by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024. www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...

River abstraction has soared 76% over two decades, threatening rivers, ecosystems and future supply. Water companies fall back on extracting more from already stressed rivers 4/4 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@bookshop.org is offering free shipping today and tomorrow might i suggest @joannapocock.bsky.social exquisite memoir bookshop.org/p/books/grey...

The paperback edition of A Natural History of Empty Lots is out today from Timber Press @hachetteus.bsky.social! Thanks to all the readers who have picked up the hardcover and ebook over the past year (or listened to the audiobook) and spread the word 🙏📖💚

At this point I am just a @triofrancos.bsky.social superfan & wanna recommend everything she’s doing but I particularly enjoyed this interview with @jathansadowski.com & @edwardongwesojr.com on all things extraction, stranded renewables assets, China, & much more 🫡 open.spotify.com/episode/4kfb...

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

On November 5, I'll be teaching an online class for @writersleaguetexas.bsky.social on nature writing in the 21st century—as both genre in its own right and essential element for writers in any genre. It should be a lot of fun: writersleague.org/calendar/wri...